Type setting and justifying machine.



No. 717,169. Patented 1m. 30, I902.

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TYPE SETTING AND JUSTIFYING MACHINE.

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u v l "UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS BOONVERSE, JR., OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO THE CGNVERSE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF'CLEVELAND, OHIO, A COR- PORATION OF OHIO.

7 TYPE SETTING AND JUSTIFYING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,].69, dated December 30, 1902. Application filed December 1'9, 1898. Serial No; 699,697. '(No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

' Be it knbwn that I, FRANCIS B. CONVERSE, .Tr., a citizenof the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State 5 of-Kentucky, have invented a certain newand-useful Improvement in Type Setting and JustifyingMachines, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings. My invention relates to a machine for setting and justifying type, (either cameo or matrix,) and more particularly to that class of such machines which, actuated by a keyboard, set desired characters in line with temporary spaces between the words and after the line is set replace the temporary spaces by permanent spaces ofthe size required for proper justification of the line.

- The object of the invention is to supply a machine of this character which shall be simple and efficient in operation, not liable to get out of order, and cheap to construct; and the invention consists of the combinations of mechanisms and the arrangement of parts 2 5 which I employ for attaining this object.

These combinations and arrangements are hereinafter described, and definitely pointed out in the claims. I

Taken as a whole the invention may be described as including mechanism for setting type and temporary spaces, mechanism for taking account of the number of temporary spaces in the line, mechanism for measuring the space available for justification, a "peculiarly-constrncted selecting-block, mechanism connecting the selecting-block with the accounting mechanism, the measuring mechanism, and'the permanent spaces, and mechanism for replacing temporary spaces by permanent spaces, whereby the proper sizes of permanent spaces to justify the line are caused to replace the temporary spaces in the line." Various subcombinations of these mechanisms and individual parts of the machine, however, are of my invention, and these can only be summarized as being illustrated in the following description and specified in the claims.

For ease of comprehension I will first give 5ov a general description of my machine without 'one after another into a receiving-channel.

reference to drawings, promising that many modifications may be made and that neither such general description nor the specific description which follows it is to be taken as limiting the scope of my invention further than the claims and the prior art require.

The types with which the line is to be composed are placed on their flat sides in a series of cases which stand vertically in line across the upper part of the machine. Each case has an opening near its base at both the front and rear sides, and ejector-bars correspond ing to the cases are set in operation by the actuation of the finger-keys and move into the rear openings of the corresponding cases, shoving the lowest type from the case through the forward opening. The type thereupon fall into converging chutes, where they are carried to a common point and-are assembled The temporary spaces are of a distinctive shape and are set between words in the line as it is being assembled. The space-key which operates to set these temporary spaces also actuates mechanism which keeps account of the number set. After the line has been assembled the length of space available for justification is measured. This is accomplished by measuring the distance between one end of the line and a gage which before any temporary space has been set stands from the otherend of the line-a distance just equal to the width of the desired column, but which as each temporary space is inserted is moved back from the end of the line a dis- 8 tance just equal to the thickness of the temporary space, thus eliminating the thickness as a factor in the measurement.

The mechanism which measures the available space acts to shift a peculiarly-shaped 9o block, which I term the selecting-block, in one direction, and the-mechanism which has recorded the number of spaces inserted operates to shift that block in another direction at right angles to the former. This block is 5 constructed of a series of stepped strips. Each strip is of individual dimensions, and thus designed to be operative with lines containing a particular number of temporary spaces, there being as many strips as the Ice maximum number oi spaces-in any line the machine is designed to justify, and the movement of the blurby the space-recording mechanism being from one strip to the next for each space inserted. The steps on each strip correspond in number to the number of different sizes of spaces which the machine is adapted to insert, and the length of the steps on the successive strips increases by a common arithmetical diil'erence.

The permanent spaces are arranged in. the order of their thickness in' a case connected with a plunger, which is adapted to operate upon the differentsteps of the selecting-block. Theposition into which the block is brought by the space-recording mechanism shifting it laterally and the measuring mechanism shifti'ngit longitudinally is such that the plunger of the space-case moving into contact with whatever step of theblock is immediately in its path moves the space-case such distance as brings the proper-sized space in that case into active position. The line being advanced along the justifying-channel, it is stopped with its first temporary space opposite the space at the ejection-point, this stoppage being caused by a suitable detent brought into action by the characteristic shape of the temporary space. Mechanism then brought into operation shoves the permanent. space from the space-case into the line, displacing The line is then advanced automatically until the next temporary space causes the line tostop. After the insertion of each permanent space the selecting'block is advanced in the direction of the length of the strips a definite amount, which is the common arithmetical difference between the length of the steps of successive strips. If the plungerstood in such relation to the corner of the step that these successive advancements cause that step to pass from uudcrtheplunger-,thcn the plunger will move into engagement with the next step and the space-case will be shifted to bringthe next size of space into the active position, the remaining permanent spaces inserted being of this size. ()n the other hand, if the plunger didnot stand close enough to the corner of the step to thus pass oil in virtue of thesucccss'ive advancements of the selecting-block the succeeding spaces i-nsertedwill be of the same size as the first. These operations of substituting a permanent 'space,-advancing theline, and advancing the selecting block after each space is inserted are continued until a permanent space has been substituted for each of the temporary spaces in the line. After the permanent spaces have been substituted for all the temporary spaces in the line the justified line is'delivered to the galicy and the'parts return to their normal po-.-

sition.

The operation is substantially the same whether ordinarymrinters type or matrices" tLlO set.

I will now give a'specific descriptionof my .scale.

view on the line 7 7 of Fig. 5.

the machine.

invention as shown in the accompanying dra\\'ings,'which illustrate its cn'ibodiment in a machine for the composition oi'ordinary printing-type.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine complete, showing thefront and rightliand end thereof, the point of viewbeing at the right of the operator and the figure being on about one-fourth the general scale of the drawings. The justifying mechanism is comprisedbetween the lower end of the raceplate and the bed, and except, where other: wise specified the following views are ofthis part of the machine and aredrawn to one justifying mechanism and a portion of the keyboard. Fig. 3 'is an elevation from the right-hand endof the machine. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation. Fig. 5 is a sectional end elevation from the left end, this section for con- Fig. 2 is afrontelevation showing the venience being on three vertical planes, which are indicated .by the offset lines 5 5 in-Figs'. 2 and 4 ,the upper right-hand portionof the figure being somewhat behind the plane through the two lower shafts and the upper left-hand portion being somewhatin front of that plane. Fig. (3 is a vertical section parallel with Fig. 4, but near the-front of the ma-' chine and lookingfromthe rear, bin'gon the olfset line 6 (3 of .Fig. 5. Fig. T'is'a' similar Fig. 8 is a ver tical section on the line 8 f Fig. 2 looking toward t'he ight of that figure. Fig. 9 is a plan, being a horizontal section on the line 9 9 of Fig. 2. Fig. 10 isahorizontal section on the line 10 10 of Fig. 2 passing-through the center of the upper shaft of the machine.

Fig. 11 is a horizontal sectionon the line 11.

11 of Fig. 2 passing through the lower shaft. Fig. 12 is an end elevation of the space-recording mechanism lookingfrom the left end of the machine, thesame being shown in horizontalsection in Fig. 11. cal'section online 13 13 of Fig. 11 looking toward the front of the machine. Fig. letis a vertical section on the'line ltltof F igs-. 5 and 11 looking towardthe front of the ma chine, the selecting-block being removed.

Fig. 15 is a horizontal: section looking downward onthe line 15 15 of Fig. 14'. Figs. 16

and 17 are vertical sections on the line 1616 screw for shifting the block and its cooperating parts respectively out of and in engagement with the screw. .Fig. 18 is a horizontal the justifying-channel.

scale of the preceding figures, ofyar-ious parts of themachine. Fig. 29 is a perspective view,

on. a similarly-large scale, of a temporary space. Fig. 30 isa vertical section on'the line- 30 30 of Figs. 5 and 9 looking from the. rear of Figs. 31 to 34, inclusive, are sectional elevations of the space -recording Fig. 13 is a vertiof'Fig. 15 and show inside elevation the :20.

mechanism, these views being takenwith the 

